Florence Cathedral

and painter with talent well beyond his years. Michelangelo was the first born child given the unique name when he was born on March 6, 1475 in a small town named Caprese, Italy. Michelangelo was very fortunate to grow up in a city like Florence, Italy. Florence always had something new; artists, thinkers,…

Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7th,1943. She was the youngest child, and she had one sister, Gray. Nikki Giovanni’s real name is Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr.; her older sister called her Nikki and the nickname stuck. In August her family moves to Cincinnati, Ohio, and her parents acquired jobs as housekeepers, (“Giovanni”). She gained a lot of appreciation for her African American heritage from her outspoken grandma. Nikki and her sister went to Knoxville often to…

In Timothy McCall’s Brilliant Bodies (a source I use for my research project), he looks at courtly fashion during the Renaissance: “This essay explores and interprets the ways in which lords achieved the brilliant clothing and bodily adornment that confirmed signorial status in the eyes of their peers and subjects. Fifteenth-century courtly values of expenditure and display such as splendore (splendor)—the Latin verb splendere means to ‘shine, be bright; to gleam, glitter, glisten’—betray the…

paintings are stunning, his inventions and experiments are what I would like to learn more about. Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance Man, having many talents and jobs such as painter, engineer, mathematician, scientist, and inventor. He helped design cathedrals and statues for the government. Leonardo wanted to learn more about human anatomy by doing studies of people and sketching them in his notebook. He also invented…

When it comes to hand drawings, we can not ignore the contributions made by Leonardo Di Serpiero da Vinci. He is a thoughtful, knowledgeable, versatile painter, astronomer, inventor, architect. He is good at sculpture, music, invention, construction, mathematics, physiology, physics, astronomy, geology and other subjects. He is not only versatile, but also diligent and prolific. It is reported that there are about 6000 pages of his manuscripts well preserved. Most of his scientific research…

The key figures of the Renaissance helped to shape the world of their time, bringing about new ideas, and challenging the rules of their societies. They also have had lasting effects on the world that help to shape it even into the modern day. It would be difficult to say who exactly had the largest influence, but ten of the best are as follows. The first figure of this group is Leonardo da Vinci, who lived in Italy and France during the mid-to-late-15th and early 16th Centuries. A well-known…

there work to this day, but Filippo Brunelleschi was the one who started it long ago in the design and construction of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito. One of Brunelleschi’s linear perspective designs is a church called San Lorenzo that is located in Florence, Italy. This church is built from vertical and horizontal support columns, pilasters, and arches that run throughout the interior and straight walls on the exterior (Image 2.1). Once you enter through the central door and into the nave…

In order to view the Ebstorf Mappa Mundi as a likeness of Christ, one must consider the ways in which his body is visually represented and functions within the context of surrounding entities, and how the map was perceived based on these constituents. The representation of Christ’s body is visualized by the dismemberment of the body and placing each part at the cardinal points on the map. The orientation of the body, like most Mappa Mundi, situates the head to the east, right hand to the south,…

Boccaccio and Chaucer are both great writers. Some of their works such as, Decameron and The Wife of Bath are still appreciated today. This essay will discuss how artifice reveals truth in Decameron, Day 10, Story 10 and The Wife of Bath. Boccaccio’s Decameron Day 10, Story 10 is a great example of how artifice reveals truth. In the story, Gualtieri tries to find out if his wife will always do her best to please him. He does this by making her go through a number of cruel tests. For example,…

“...Something strangely artificial, or even deformed” : Mauro Giuliani's Bold Attempt to Legitimize the Classical Guitar. While he mainly referred to himself as a violoncellist, Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) was the leading guitar virtuoso of his time and still stands as one of the leading composers in the repertoire of the instrument. A well respected and well connected musician in early 19th century Italy, Giuliani was regularly seen performing, dining and in the entorages of the likes of Haydn…